I am a technology journalist with three decades of press experience. Primarily I work as a news analysis writer dedicated to a software application development ‘beat’. I have spent much of the last twenty years focusing on open source, analytics & data science, cloud computing, mobile devices & data management.
Software has a weight. In a totally abstract digital sense, we can create software code that is heavy with excessive lines of code that perform circuitous functions, or we can create lean lightweight code that gets the job done faster. Although this is an oversimplification and software languages differ in terms of the way they are compiled, interpreted and executed at the back-end, we can say that some software is fit and wiry, while other code is bloated.
Even when we do know why this problem is happening, replicating product loads in various situations can be challenging. As inefficiencies creep into code, thereby slower processing, increased memory usage and system resource constraints processing time extends. These challenges often transcend into functional challenges for businesses. It is of course vital for developers and coding teams to prioritize testing and address non-functional requirements in their code, upfront.
When code readability suffers, Chennupati reminds us that spreading tacit knowledge becomes difficult and new code additions worsen complexity in an already unmaintained system. When code becomes hard to handle, it causes frequent bugs and requires a significant amount of rewriting, time-to-market and increasing development cost.Understanding how code becomes bloated is essential to mitigate its detrimental effects on performance and maintainability.
“One of the biggest mistakes made when refactoring is overdoing it and ignoring the strategic view of the overall code, architecture, design, structure and usability. Developers must ensure they approach code-refactoring with a futuristic mindset and ensure proper governance and guardrails are in place around the software development life cycle,” concluded Chennupati.
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